Integrative Healing
What Is it?
Basic Principle
| The basic idea behind Integrative Healing is that the entire being is considered. Some may call this holistic healing. This type of healing ideally involves more than one modality for healing, and may require a team of healers working together to effect results. This partnership may involve standard medical practice in addition to complementary or alternative therapies. All aspects of the person’s body, mind, and spirit need to be addressed in this type of healing. It also assumes that the client is an active participant and is assuming appropriate responsibility for following through on treatment recommendations |
Why use it?
| Allopathic medicine works mainly with the physical body. In the current health care crisis, some feel that it does not even do that as well as it used to. Patients are often rushed in and out, symptoms are briefly assessed, tests are given, and treatment is prescribed from a limited spectrum of drugs, surgery, radiation, etc. Rarely does the doctor have time to delve into lifestyle issues with the patient or advise on habits, nutritional needs, and so on. This is where adjunctive therapies can be invaluable. Allopathic medicine also is usually working from the premise of addressing a system breakdown which has already occurred. Integrative healing modalities can offer strong support in the realm of prevention. Often, treatment in one modality alone may be insufficient. This can be true in both allopathic medicine and in isolated alternative therapies. For example, chiropractic is a wonderful healing tool, yet sometimes the alignments do not hold. This can be caused by many seemingly unrelated things such as unprocessed emotions which the person has scripted into their bodies. In fact, most physical ailments are the last manifestations of imbalances that exist first in the other energy bodies of the person, such as unresolved mental, emotional, or spiritual issues. |